Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life by Joshua Spodek

Author:Joshua Spodek
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Greenwich Lane Books
Published: 2019-05-20T23:00:00+00:00

Some hope a passion finds them by luck. Since passions rarely appear out of the blue, this view renders them helpless to act. They wait and hope, often their entire lives. Again, love at first sight may happen sometimes, but I wouldn’t base my life on it.

Others believe you have to start by acting, which will lead you to discover passions. To the extent it presumes that taking an idea to business success will lead to you loving what you do, Lean works this way. It looks like this:

Some get lucky acting on this model. I followed this model with my first company. I loved developing an idea I conceived of and building a company, but couldn’t develop a passion for outdoor advertising. Many people burn out after acting without finding passion, erroneously concluding they just aren’t born entrepreneurs or initiators. They’re more like someone who gets sore or injured their first time weightlifting. The problem wasn’t lifting weights, but improper form, or lifting too much too soon.

Relying too much on passion or action puts too much burden on those factors. What works is what I call the Initiative-Action-Passion cycle:

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